Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2539, Benjamin Enyart, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Enyart Benjamin Enigart or
S 2539
carded
CONTENTS

13210
Ohio
Benjamin Enyart
of Hamilton in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pratt of the Regt commanded by Col Ogden in the New Jersey line for Militia for 10 Months
Enyart or Engart
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May 1833 - and since Clerk of Hamilton Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $ 66 : 66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1/2 Sep. 33 16 : 66
$83 : 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. B. Whiting Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 8 Page 7

Letter to B. Engard 15 Aug 1839.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 4 Sept 1838 Agts Notified 11 Sep 1839
1888
July 19 - S. F. Cary - history - Prior

Benjamin Engart Hamilton Co. Ohio
$33.33
C/Re of Hamilton Co.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act passed June 7 th 1832. 1
The State of Ohio } Hamilton County } set
On this twenty seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County now sitting Benjamin Enyart a resident of Springfield Township in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832: That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz Captain Daniel Piatt Lieutenant William Piatt and Col Ogden in the first Jersey Regiment of the New Jersey line in the Town of Woodbridge in the State of New Jersey in the month of April in the yr. 1778 and marched to near Valley Forge where they joined the army under the command of Genl. Maxfield and marched to Mount Holly and remained there a short time and continued their march on towards Trenton and from thence towards Monmouth where they came up with the enemy and was engaged in the battle near at that place and after the battle remained in the neighborhood of that place for two or three days and marched to Elizabeth Town where they took up Winter quarters in order to guard the lines between Amboy and the second river and continued in that service until discharged having served nine months: And again entered the service in the Spring of the year following 1779 for one month under Captain Robert Ross the other officers he does not recollect at the Town of Woodbridge aforesaid and was occupied in the neighborhood of Woodbridge in guarding up the lines up and down the river until discharged and continued in the service performing military duty in the neighborhood of Woodbridge under different officers whom it is now impossible for him to recollect until the close of the war He is confident that his whole term of service

was not less than two years that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn and subscribed the day & yr. aforesaid in open Court
Stan. Pano Clerk
Benjamin Engert
Interrogatories propounded by the Court to the applicant
1. Where and in what year were you born
Ans in the yr. 1759 at Woodbridge in the state of New Jersey
2d Have you any record of yr. age & if so where is it
Ans none that I know of
3d Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans In Woodbridge N.J. and since removed to the State of Pennsylvania and afterwards to the State of Ohio where he has resided for thirty five years
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans Always volunteered
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans Col. Martin Col. Spencer Genl. Maxwell & Genl. Washington, the general circumstances of my service are contained in my Declaration
6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans never but one for the first term of service which has long since been lost
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to yr. character for veracity & their belief of yr. services as a soldier of the revolution
Ans I am known to Thomas Smith Esqr. Dr Brading John McGilliard Esqr. Caleb Cram Revd John Thompson

Sworn & subscribed the day & yr. aforesaid
Benjamin Enyart
We William Burke a clergymen residing in the City of Cincinnati in the County and State aforesaid and James Coddington of the County aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Enyart who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & yr. aforesaid
in Open Court Dan s Fano Clerk P.T.
William Burke. James Coddington
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Burke who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen residing in the City of Cincinnati and that Jas Coddington who has also signed the same is a resident of the County aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Daniel Fano Clerk P.T. of the Court of common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Enyart for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th day of Feby A. D. 1833
Dan s Fano Clerk P.T.

Rev War
2539 INVALID.
File No. 2539 Emyart Benjamin Emyart Print Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 14
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Benjamin Esgart Ohio 7 th June 1832)
$ 33. 33
To Wheat line last paid
Pension Office
15 th Aug 1839. 1 st to 4 th March 1838
JH

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 7 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Benjamin Engarth, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Thirty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1838, to the 4 th Sept. 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Walter B. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.